LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services to Yachts In 1951
IN 1951 life-boats went out to the help of yachts 120 times. That figure includes sailing dinghies, sailing boats, motor cruisers and motor yachts. It is nearly a quarter of the total of launches for the year, which was...
Category: Services
Sunderland Tragedy
Criticisms of the absence of the Sunderland life-boat when a lifeguard was drowned in tragic circumstances near the Cat and Dog steps at Roker last August were refuted at the inquest on the lifeguard, Mr. John Ramsay. He had gone out to...
Category: Articles
Shifting Sands
Shallow water and unpredictable sandbanks present the East Coast lifeboatman with particular difficulties.
Mike Floyd looks at the situation around The Wash We all have our own mental picture of a lifeboat in action - often...
Category: Articles
Experimental Floating Stretchers
TRIALS ARE AT PRESENT in progress on two different possible answers to the same problem: how best to achieve a stretcher which will float. While flotation is obviously a desirable extra safeguard in any marine situation, there are also many...
Category: Articles
Zurich
PALLING-BY-THE-SEA, NORFOLK. — On the 13th August, during a fresh wind from the S.E., the British Workman Lifeboat, on this Station, was launched to the assistance of the barque Zurich, of North Shields, which had stranded o u Hasborongh...
Onward
PALLING-BY-THE-SEA, NORFOLK. — On the 1st December, at 4 P.M., the British Workman Life-boat proceeded, during a strong E.S.E. wind and heavy sea, to the aid of a vessel which was signalling for assistance. She proved to be the barque Onward...
Gustava
BALLYCOTTON, IRELAND. — At about 5 P.M. on the 21st October, the barque Gustava,, of Laurvig, Norway, bound from Cardiff to the Baltic via Cork, with coal, was seen standing in for Ballycotton Sound. A pilot went off to her in a whaleboat,...
Patrick
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—At 4 P.M. on the 8th February, a signal of distress was hoisted by the cutter Patrick, of Peel, coal laden from Whitehaven for Killough, which was riding heavily with three anchors down, and dragging them about a mile...
Ark
CLOVELLY.—During a moderate gale from the N., squally weather, and a heavy sea, on the 7th December, the ketch Ark, of Bridgwater, bound from Lydney for Bnde with a cargo of coal, showed a signal of distress while at anchor in the roadstead....
Minnie Eaton
During a strong southerly gale and heavy sea on the 15th March, signals of distress were seen from a vessel near the Barber Sands, and the Life-boat John Burch was launched and proceeded in the direction of the signals. On reaching the...